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- DictionaryNa·tion/ˈnāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory: "the world's leading industrialized nations"
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
Definition of nation noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. nation. noun. /ˈneɪʃn/ [countable] a country considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history, who live in a particular area under one government. European/Arab/Asian nations. The West African nation of Togo has presidential elections this week.
1 day ago · noun. 1. an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state. the Australian nation. 2. a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc. the French-Canadian nation.
Britannica Dictionary definition of NATION. 1. a [count] : a large area of land that is controlled by its own government : country. It's one of the richest/poorest nations in the world. the largest state/province in the nation. industrialized/developing nations. the United Nations.
Nation definition: a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own. See examples of NATION used in a sentence.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation. 2. (Sociology) a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc: the French-Canadian nation. 3. (Sociology)
A nation is a country and its people. It's also the word used for the Native American tribal federations in the US — the Cherokee Nation, for instance — which have their own governments and territories.
